Early Career Researcher - Panel Discussion
In this exciting session, we will explore the various routes with which Early-career Researchers can navigate their career paths. We will celebrate the achievements of scholars who were recently ECRs and showcase their success stories, providing a space for ECR and postgraduate attendees to network with them.
Throughout the panel, we will discuss the key topic of track record building, examining the roles of publication and funding in career progression, as well as the challenges which the panel members faced in their footsteps. We will further provide an overview on making real-life impact in research, illustrating the importance of public engagement and policy actions, and the balance between maintaining a public profile and focusing on research outputs. Finally, we will also deep dive into the topic of resilience and happiness, discussing the often neglected aspects of academia.
Evgeniya Lukinova
Dr Evgeniya Lukinova is an Assistant Professor in Behavioural Analytics at University of Nottingham Business School. Evgeniya has published in leading interdisciplinary journals such as Scientific Reports, Nature Human Behavior and eLife. Before joining UoN, she was an Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow of Statistics at the New York University Shanghai.
During her Postdoctoral appointments at New York University Shanghai and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, she was a PI of the human behaviour laboratory promoting the field of neuroeconomics. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Oregon. She holds M.S. & B.S. from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in Applied Mathematics and Management.
Roberto Mansilla
Dr. Roberto Mansilla is an Assistant Professor in Social Data Science at the University of Nottingham's Business School, affiliated with the Centre of Excellence in International Analytics (N/LAB). He holds a BSc in Industrial Engineering from Universidad del Desarrollo, multiple postgraduate diplomas in operations management, management control, and retail management from Chilean institutions, an MSc in Business Analytics, and a PhD in Behavioural Analytics from the University of Nottingham.
His research focuses on leveraging consumer loyalty card data, advanced analytics, and machine learning to gain insights into consumer purchase patterns across different channels and hidden health trajectories. He actively contributes to modules on consumer insights, business analytics, and machine learning at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Anna-Leena Vuorinen
Anna-Leena is an Assistant Professor of health data science at Tampere University, Finland, with a background in statistics (MSc) and epidemiology (PhD). Her research focuses on digital epidemiology involving the secondary use various real-world data sources including health registers, biobanks, consumer-generated data, environmental data and their linkages.
Vuorinen is the PI of a biobank study which aims to link food purchase data with health registers to predict the onset and progression of cardiometabolic diseases.
Francesca Pontin
Fran is a Senior Research Fellow in the Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service and a Lecturer in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds. As a member of the Institute for Spatial Data Science, her research focuses on applying advanced data science techniques to explore the spatial, temporal, and demographic determinants of health, with the goal of reducing inequalities. She is particularly interested in leveraging both open and commercial secondary data to understand behaviours and identify barriers faced by diverse population groups. Her work is strongly policy-oriented, collaborating with stakeholders to transform research informed insights into actionable strategies.